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Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam /
Medical
Concern
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos / Former President Of The Philippines
Third World
Ask
World Way Find
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Third
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Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
Chris Patten / Governor Of Hong Kong
Causes
Co2
Country
Moments
Developed
Developed Countries
Emission
Undoubtedly
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We must update our country's workplace policies to remain competitive against other developed countries.
Suzan Delbene /
Workplace
Competitive
Developed
Developed Countries
Policies
Update
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Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.
Goodluck Jonathan / President Of Nigeria
Engineers
Nigeria
Developed
Developed Countries
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A global deal will only be possible if Britain plays its part, leading the way with other developed countries.
Lucy Powell / British Politician
Britain
Country
Play
Way
Developed
Developed Countries
Plays
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
P. Chidambaram / Indian Politician
Country
Kyoto
Recognise
Requirements
World
Developed
Developed Countries
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What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.
Joseph Stiglitz / Economist
Developed Countries
Gap
Separates
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The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.
Lu Wei /
Chinese
Chinese Government
Internet
Manage
Western
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Learnt
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I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of energy.
Hugo Chavez / Former President Of Venezuela
Country
Energy
Thinking
Waste
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Reflect
So-Called
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Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee / Former Prime Minister Of India
Backlash
Bihar
Country
Economic
Interdependence
Mean
Today
Could
Create
Developed
Developed Countries
Disasters
Global
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I think most Americans understand that we deserve to have universal health care, as enjoyed by most citizens in most developed countries.
Pete Buttigieg /
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If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?
Jim Rogers / Investor
Birth
Birth Rate
Country
Debt
Enormous
Lowest
Rate
Countries
Current
Developed
Developed Countries
Japanese
Major
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We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
Hugo Chavez / Former President Of Venezuela
Country
Emissions
Insignificant
Percent
Venezuela
Currently
Compared
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Reduce
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The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.
Anna Lindh / Swedish Politician
Active
Assistance
Country
Developing Countries
Support
Trade
Developed
Developed Countries
Negotiations
Technical
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Developed countries should support developing countries in tackling climate change. This not only is their responsibility, but also serves their long-term interests.
Hu Jintao / Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of China
Climate Change
Country
Long
Long Term
Responsibility
Tackling
Change Responsibility Climate
Developed
Developed Countries
Interests
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In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
Peter Diamandis / Physician
Average
Average Person
Population
Developed
Developed Countries
Receives
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
Barbara Amiel / Journalist
Running
Benefits
Country
Soviet
Soviet Union
Benefit
Controlling
Developed
Developed Countries
Empire
Inefficient
Interests
Union
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Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.
Anna Lindh / Swedish Politician
Capacity
Country
Products
Support
World
Advanced
Open
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Export
Import
Markets
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Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Benefits
Poorest
Achieved
Aid
Developed
Developed Countries
Small Part
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
Naoto Kan / Former Prime Minister Of Japan
China
China And India
Country
Including
India
Nuclear
Build
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
More And More
Plants
Trend
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We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.
Peter Singer / Philosopher
Accustomed
Affluence
Country
Fall
Pain
Standards
Pain People Feel
Developed
Developed Countries
Extraordinarily
Falling
Grown
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While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.
Carol Bellamy / New York State Senator
Technology
Country
Revolution
World
Technology Where World
Technology World More
Assist
Developed
Developed Countries
Households
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
Raghuram Rajan / Adviser
Slow Growth
Unemployment
Contemplate
Developed
Developed Countries
Economies
High Unemployment
Slow
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In developed countries, strong rules are in place to restrict sound pollution and curb its deadly effects. As law-abiding citizens with social responsibility, we should all come together against this unhealthy trend.
Mohanlal /
Citizens
Curb
Effects
Pollution
Responsibility
Social
Social Responsibility
Sound
Strong
Unhealthy
Rules
Against
Countries
Deadly
Developed
Developed Countries
Law-Abiding
Law-Abiding Citizens
Restrict
Trend
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The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.
Toshihiko Fukui /
Aging
Country
Japan
Pace
Population
Serious
Any Other Country
Decreasing
Demographic
Developed
Developed Countries
Experienced
Rapid
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Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
Bill Gates / Investor
Country
Growing Up
Talking
Myself People Situation
Developed
Developed Countries
Gotten
Meeting
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As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.
Raghuram Rajan / Adviser
Fallen
Portugal
Spain
Afford
Belong
Developed
Developed Countries
Multilateral
Needing
Trap
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Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to bring our social indicators on par with developed countries.
Piyush Goyal /
Creation
Job Creation
Poverty
Routes
Beat
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Sustainable
Expenditure
Increased
Par
Permanently
Trap
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Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.
Michelle Bachelet / President Of Chile
Equality
Country
Educational
Glasses
Labor
Workplace
Ahead
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Glass
Guarantee
Market
Prevent
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And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.
Miriam Makeba / Singer
Country
People
Thinking
Third World
World Music
Music World People
Developed
Developed Countries
Our Music
Third
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It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it's changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.
Alex Tabarrok / Economist
China
China And India
Indian
Innovation
Nobel
Almost All
Case
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Expect
Number
Longer
Prizes
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Considering the great benefits broadband connectivity can bring to individuals and businesses alike, it is crucial for developing countries - and underserved communities in developed countries - to help build out broadband infrastructure in an affordable manner.
Tae Yoo /
Affordable
Benefits
Broadband
Considering
Crucial
Infrastructure
Alike
Businesses
Communities
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Individuals
Manner
Underserved
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During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes.
Gunnar Myrdal / Economist
Decades
Decrease
Effectiveness
Nations
Security
Stakes
United Nations
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Particularly
Generally
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A series of studies in the 1990s and 2000s revealed that as women gained more access to education, jobs, and birth control, they had fewer children. As a result, developed countries in western Europe, Japan, and the Americas were seeing zero or negative population growth.
Annalee Newitz / Journalist
Education
Jobs
Zero
Access
Birth
Birth Control
Fewer
Growth
Japan
Negative
Population
Population Growth
Seeing
Series
Western
Western Europe
Americas
Countries
Developed
Developed Countries
Gained
Result
Revealed
Studies
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Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.'
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Faith
Aging
Emerging
Financial
Social
Africa
Budget
Budget Deficits
Burdened
Countries
Crises
Deficits
Developed
Developed Countries
Financial Crises
Frontier
Major
Last
Widening
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Bearing in mind most companies rely on the middle classes in developed countries to sell goods and services throughout the value chain, dealing with inequality is a matter of brutal enlightened self-interest. It's simple economics: Global stability equals global growth equals profits.
Richard Quest / Journalist
Brutal
Enlightened
Goods
Inequality
Rely
Self Interest
Stability
Bearing
Chain
Classes
Dealing
Developed Countries
Equals
Profits
Services
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Many people of my generation grew up in developed countries thinking that the world was divided into two parts and that there was a wall round the developed world. They thought that poor people had no relevance to us. What happened on September 11 was that anybody who thought there was a wall now knows that there is no wall.
James Wolfensohn / Lawyer
Divided
My Generation
Poor People
Relevance
September
Thinking World People
Developed Countries
Round
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Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.
Hugo Chavez / Former President Of Venezuela
Country
Electric
Investment
Oil
Responsibility
Scientific Research
Transition
Valuable
Assume
Developed
Developed Countries
Discuss
Era
Requires
Resource
Scientific
Searching
Sources
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